[#389739] Ruby Challenge — teresa nuagen <unguyen90@...>

Here is a ruby challenge for all you computer science lovers out there,

22 messages 2011/11/05
[#389769] Re: Ruby Challenge — "Jonan S." <jonanscheffler@...> 2011/11/05

Totally unrelated to any husker computer science programs right? Like

[#389905] Re: Ruby Challenge — Stephen Ramsay <sramsay.unl@...> 2011/11/09

Jonan S. wrote in post #1030330:

[#389907] Re: Ruby Challenge — aseret nuagen <unguyen90@...> 2011/11/09

> You mean like the professor for the course? Because that would be me .

[#389915] Re: Ruby Challenge — Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...> 2011/11/09

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:52 AM, aseret nuagen <unguyen90@aim.com> wrote:

[#389792] Tricky DSL, how to do it? — Intransition <transfire@...>

I'd want to write a DSL such that a surface method_missing catches

18 messages 2011/11/06

[#389858] Compiling Ruby Inline C code - resolving errors — Martin Hansen <mail@...>

I am trying to get this Ruby inline C code http://pastie.org/2825882 to

12 messages 2011/11/08

[#389928] Forming a Ruby meetup group... — "Darryl L. Pierce" <mcpierce@...>

Where I work we have a local Ruby group that used to meet up, until the

12 messages 2011/11/09

[#389950] The faster way to read files — "Noé Alejandro" <casanejo@...>

Does anybody know which is the fastest way to read a file? Lets say

18 messages 2011/11/09

[#390064] referring to version numbers in a gem — Chad Perrin <code@...>

How do I specify and access a gem's version number within the code of the

28 messages 2011/11/11

[#390238] RVM problem, plz help — Misha Ognev <b1368810@...>

Hi, I have this problem:

15 messages 2011/11/16

[#390308] any command line tools for querying yaml files — Rahul Kumar <sentinel1879@...>

(Sorry, this is not exactly a ruby question).

11 messages 2011/11/18

[#390338] Newbie - cmd question — Otto Dydakt <ottodydakt@...>

I've literally JUST downloaded ruby from rubyinstaller.org.

21 messages 2011/11/19
[#390342] Re: Newbie - cmd question — Otto Dydakt <ottodydakt@...> 2011/11/19

OK thank you, I uninstalled & reinstalled, checking the three boxes at

[#390343] Re: Newbie - cmd question — "Ian M. Asaff" <ian.asaff@...> 2011/11/19

did you type "irb" first to bring up the ruby command prompt?

[#391154] Re: Newbie - cmd question — "Hussain A." <hahmad@...> 2011/12/12

Hi all,

[#391165] Re: Newbie - cmd question — Luis Lavena <luislavena@...> 2011/12/12

Hussain A. wrote in post #1036281:

[#390374] Principle of Best Principles — Intransition <transfire@...>

I seem to run into a couple of design issue a lot and I never know what is

16 messages 2011/11/20

[#390396] how to call Function argument into another ruby script. — hari mahesh <harismahesh@...>

Consider I have a ruby file called library.rb.

10 messages 2011/11/21

[#390496] How to make 1.9.2 my default version using RVM — Fily Salas <fs_tigre@...>

Hi,

25 messages 2011/11/24

[#390535] Is high-speed sorting impossible with Ruby? — "Gaurav C." <chande.gaurav@...>

Well, first of all, I'm new to Ruby, and to this forum. So, hello. :)

39 messages 2011/11/25
[#390580] Re: Is high-speed sorting impossible with Ruby? — Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...> 2011/11/27

Hi,

[#390593] Re: Is high-speed sorting impossible with Ruby? — "Gaurav C." <chande.gaurav@...> 2011/11/27

Joao Pedrosa wrote in post #1033884:

[#390600] Re: Is high-speed sorting impossible with Ruby? — Douglas Seifert <doug@...> 2011/11/27

A big gain can be had by disabling the garbage collector. Here is my best

[#390601] Re: Is high-speed sorting impossible with Ruby? — Douglas Seifert <doug@...> 2011/11/27

I've thrown various solutions up on github here:

[#390689] Stupid question — James Gallagher <lollyproductions@...>

Hi everyone.

22 messages 2011/11/30

Re: Principle of Best Principles

From: Michael Shigorin <mike@...>
Date: 2011-11-21 09:40:12 UTC
List: ruby-talk #390386
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:19:33PM +0900, Kevin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Marc Heiler wrote:
> > It's more important to get the job done than strive
> > for the perfect design.
> While ramming it in is an option, I think that it does pay to try and
> come up with good designs that will be flexible.  I've found that
> ramming things in seems to fall apart as soon as my boss decides that
> he needs something different or I realize that my initial thoughts on
> the problem were wrong.

Well, my experience so far is that it's wrong to just rush
forward without even trying to design, plan and experiment;
but it might be just as wrong to overengineer in terms of
the first usable result availability.

I've read an interesting thing in Ed Hillary's book on the
conquest of Everest: it's often not feasible to understand
the path beforehand until you climb high enough to see the
cracks and whirls lying forth (and I've walked even if not
climbed mountains myself as well to concur).

Maybe a good part of the reason behind sane (sic!) application
of agile techniques is related to this same phenomena: we're
better off exploring and advancing in iterations without relying
on our -- or boss' or customer's -- understanding of the problem
at hand which might just honestly overlook something important
or change over time due to unpredictable circumstances change.

	So to me you're both right in some sense.

Further reading might include "The Rise of 'Worse Is Better'"
and subsequent "Worse Is Better Is Worse" for those interested.

(diving back to makefiles and shell of a distro build metasystem)

-- 
 ---- WBR, Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.ru>
  ------ Linux.Kiev http://www.linux.kiev.ua/

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